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The "Iron Curtain" dividing Europe into East and West also divided Austria and Hungary. Between 10 May and early September 1956, in a brief thaw before the revolution, Hungarian soldiers cleared the area of mines and took down the barbed-wire fences on the Austrian border, 1956.
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The "Iron Curtain" dividing Europe into East and West also divided Austria and H...

The "Iron Curtain" dividing Europe into East and West also divided Austria and Hungary. Between 10 May and early September 1956, in a brief thaw before the revolution, Hungarian soldiers cleared the area of mines and took down the barbed-wire fences on the Austrian border, 1956.
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The "Iron Curtain" dividing Europe into East and West also divided Austria and H...

The "Iron Curtain" dividing Europe into East and West also divided Austria and Hungary. Between 10 May and early September 1956, in a brief thaw before the revolution, Hungarian soldiers cleared the area of mines and took down the barbed-wire fences on the Austrian border, 1956.
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The "Iron Curtain" dividing Europe into East and West also divided Austria and H...

The "Iron Curtain" dividing Europe into East and West also divided Austria and Hungary. Between 10 May and early September 1956, in a brief thaw before the revolution, Hungarian soldiers cleared the area of mines and took down the barbed-wire fences on the Austrian border, 1956.
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The "Iron Curtain" dividing Europe into East and West also divided Austria and H...

The "Iron Curtain" dividing Europe into East and West also divided Austria and Hungary. Between 10 May and early September 1956, in a brief thaw before the revolution, Hungarian soldiers cleared the area of mines and took down the barbed-wire fences on the Austrian border, 1956.
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The "Iron Curtain" dividing Europe into East and West also divided Austria and H...

The "Iron Curtain" dividing Europe into East and West also divided Austria and Hungary. Between 10 May and early September 1956, in a brief thaw before the revolution, Hungarian soldiers cleared the area of mines and took down the barbed-wire fences on the Austrian border, 1956.
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The "Iron Curtain" dividing Europe into East and West also divided Austria and H...

The "Iron Curtain" dividing Europe into East and West also divided Austria and Hungary. Between 10 May and early September 1956, in a brief thaw before the revolution, Hungarian soldiers cleared the area of mines and took down the barbed-wire fences on the Austrian border, 1956.
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The "Iron Curtain" dividing Europe into East and West also divided Austria and H...

At the meeting of the Petöfi Cercle on June 27,1956, Arpad Szakasits, social democrat, talks to philosopher George Lukacs.
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At the meeting of the Petöfi Cercle on June 27,1956, Arpad Szakasits, social dem...

The meeting on June 27, 1956, on press and information policy, sparked the Revolution of October. Emil Horn, later historian of the Revolution.
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The meeting on June 27, 1956, on press and information policy, sparked the Revol...

Tibor Deri, well-known Hungarian writer, addresses the meeting of the Petöfi Cercle on June 27, 1956.
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Tibor Deri, well-known Hungarian writer, addresses the meeting of the Petöfi Cer...

The meeting on June 27, 1956, was held in the main hall of the Budapest Officers' Club. It dealt with the press- and information poilcy of the Communist government.
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The meeting on June 27, 1956, was held in the main hall of the Budapest Officers...

During the meeting on press- and information policy at the Petöfi Cercle on June 27, 1956, Gabor Tanczos (left), Secretary of the Cercle, sits next to Geza Losonczy, who became Secretary of State in the Nagy-government during the Revolution. Losonczy died in prison in December 1957.
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During the meeting on press- and information policy at the Petöfi Cercle on June...